. The encyclopaedia of sport. e excellent serviceat the stud. In 1884 it is tolerably certain that Busybody must have won the Derby had sherun, as there is no doubt of her superiority toHarvester, who ran a dead heat with St. was, indeed, a very good mare, butshe showed signs of lameness after her Oaksvictory, and though sent to Ascot, was neverable to run there or subsequently ; she finallybroke down a fortnight before the St. Leger,but has distinguished herself as the dam ofMeddler, whose loss to this country is to beregretted. There can be no doubt he was agood horse, who wo
. The encyclopaedia of sport. e excellent serviceat the stud. In 1884 it is tolerably certain that Busybody must have won the Derby had sherun, as there is no doubt of her superiority toHarvester, who ran a dead heat with St. was, indeed, a very good mare, butshe showed signs of lameness after her Oaksvictory, and though sent to Ascot, was neverable to run there or subsequently ; she finallybroke down a fortnight before the St. Leger,but has distinguished herself as the dam ofMeddler, whose loss to this country is to beregretted. There can be no doubt he was agood horse, who would in all probability haveearned a place in this chapter had he remainedin England. He won the Dewhurst Plate. St. Simon, a contemporary of St. Gatien andBusybody, was not entered for the Derby. Be-fore the death of Prince Batthyany it had beenrumoured that he owned a remarkably promisingcolt in a son of the Derby winner Galopin andof a mare called St. Angela. More than one man,however, who had reason to believe in the colts. capacity, timidly let him slip when he was forsale after his masters terribly sudden death atNewmarket, and the lucky Duke of Portlandbought him for 1,600 guineas, his dam beingsold the same afternoon for 320 guineas. Fourweeks afterwards to the day St. Simon made hisfirst appearance on a racecourse in the HalnakerStakes at Goodwood, ridden by Archer, andwon in a canter by half-a-dozen lengths. Nextafternoon he came out again for a Maiden Plateagainst a solitary opponent, of whom he disposedwithout an effort. The few engagements whichhad been made for him were of course renderedvoid by the death of his first owner, andhis next race was in the Devonshire Nurseryat Derby. He had now earned 8 st. 12 lbs.,and played with his opponents. In the Princeof Wales Nursery at Doncaster he was topweight, 9 St., in a field of twenty-one, and won by eight lengths was the verdict,—the judge was not called upon to say thatthe eight lengths might have been eighteenif Arc
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